WINNIPEG Along with 166 new cases, Manitoba health officials reported two new COVID-19 deaths. Announced in the province s daily COVID-19 bulletin on Saturday, the deaths include a Winnipeg man in his 80s linked to the outbreak at Holy Family Personal Care Home and a man in his 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region linked to the outbreak at Heritage Life Personal Care Home. The COVID-19 death toll in Manitoba now sits at 825. Of the new cases, 47 are in Winnipeg, which has a five-day test positivity rate of 4.4 per cent. Out of the remaining cases, 26 are in the Interlake-Eastern health region, 69 are in the Northern health region, 14 are in the Prairie Mountain health region and ten are in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region.
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Posted on 01/30/2021 at 12:45 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 7.3 per cent provincially and 4.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 30, 2021, 166 new cases of the virus have been identified bringing the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 29,446.
Public health officials advise two additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
a male in his 80s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at Holy Family Personal Care Home; and
a male in his 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region and linked to the outbreak at Heritage Life Personal Care Home.
WINNIPEG Manitoba added eight new COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, and the death toll now sits at 821. Six of the deaths are from the Winnipeg area and all of them are women. One was in her 60s, another was in her 70s and linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home. Four were in their 90s, one from the St. Norbert Personal Care Home outbreak, two from the Charleswood Care Centre outbreak, and the last was connected to the outbreak at the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg. The other two deaths were women in their 80s, one from the Interlake-Eastern Health Region from the Beausejour Hospital outbreak, and the other is from the Southern Health Region and connected to the outbreak at the Heritage Life Personal Care Home.
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Northern Manitoba continues to be the biggest driver of new COVID cases in the province as health orders in the south are set to loosen on Saturday morning.
For Dr. Jazz Atwal, acting deputy chief provincial public health officer, it is a stern reminder to not abuse the situation and act within the spirit of the order.
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“It’s going to be up to every single Manitoban to do those correct things,” he said. “This isn’t going to be about trying to skirt an order, to try to find a loophole in something. I think everyone understands what they need to do.”
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